Rosalind Russell

right|thumb|Russell (c. 1955) Catherine Rosalind Russell (4 June 1907 – 28 November 1976) was a four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday. Quotes Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. Rosalind Russell, Life is a Banquet Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Rosalind Russell p. 383 At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was in the second line of defence, behind Myrna Loy. Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. Quotes about Roz Russell got so frightened at Cary's glibness that she told me she'd hired a gag writer on the side to interpolate bits for her. Ralph Bellamy, speaking about His Girl Friday with James Bawden in either 1978, 1983 or 1988; as quoted in Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era (2016) by Bawden and Ron Miller, p. 36 Roz is in Hollywood, but she's not of it. Kay Francis, as quoted by Russell in Life is a Banquet (1977), p. 241 External links Category:Actresses from Connecticut Category:Comedians from the United States Category:Singers from the United States Category:Women singers Category:Catholics from the United States Category:1907 births Category:1976 deaths Category:Tony Award winners Category:Women born in the 1900s Category:Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe (film) winners Category:Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners